About this role
<p><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 150 years. </strong></span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Our Vision:</strong> Our vision is to become the most admired utility in the United States through the execution of our long-term growth strategy. We have an unwavering commitment to safely and reliably deliver electricity and natural gas to millions of people. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Our Commitment: </strong>CenterPoint Energy is committed to creating an inclusive work environment where business results are achieved through the skills, abilities and talents of our diverse workforce.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">At CenterPoint Energy, individuals are respected for their contributions toward our company objectives. We strive for an inclusive work environment across all levels that is reflective of the available workforce in the communities we serve.</span></span> </p> <p> </p><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Summary</b></H2> </div><div><p style="margin:0.0in;font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">The Manager of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for leading a team of enterprise architects, domain architects, solutions architects, and platform architects to define and implement the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and governance. This role oversees the development of architectural blueprints and ensures alignment with business objectives and technology standards. The manager will work closely with stakeholders across the organization to facilitate collaboration and innovation, ensuring that architectural practices are consistent and effective.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Essential Functions</b></H2> </div><div><ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Lead and mentor a diverse team of architects, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Serve as a bridge between enterprise, domain, platform, and solution architects to ensure alignment with the enterprise architecture strategy.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, emphasizing cloud solutions, applications, data, and security. </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Establish and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across all technology implementations.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Lead architectural reviews to ensure adherence to best practices, governance standards, and enterprise policies. </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Manage the Architecture Review Board (ARB), Technical Integration Reviews (TIR), deviation reviews, solution walkthroughs, and other governance structures to oversee architectural compliance, including timely escalations and leadership reporting.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Identify emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on the enterprise technology landscape and roadmap.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white"> Drive the innovation process and support the development of minimum viable products (MVPs) to demonstrate value to stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Communicate strategic themes and key business drivers for architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to gather requirements and ensure alignment with the broader enterprise architecture landscape.</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Essential Functions Cont'd</b></H2> </div><div><ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Develop and document comprehensive standards for architects to refer to, covering all domains of data, cloud/infrastructure, applications/integrations, business architecture, and security. </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Maintain and manage enterprise architecture tools and repositories, with emphasis on Ardoq for reference architectures and L0/L1 modeling, plus ServiceNow integration for data quality and governance tracking.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Drive the Architecture Community of Practice to promote thought leadership, industry trends, and best practices within the enterprise.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Lead integration strategy efforts, including vendor assessment and selection, as-is workshops, and ongoing platform support.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Oversee financial management of EA consultants and initiatives, including WBS code tracking, Beeline maintenance, invoice processing, managed service options review, budgeting, and back-charging of governance work.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Develop and advance the EA roadmap (aligned with studies such as PWC), EA Playbook, maturity models, and key deliverables including current and future state architecture reports.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Build organizational capability through EA competency framework development and tracking, goal setting, intern program management, and development of deputies across the architecture team.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Drive operational rhythms such as DOR meetings, daily updates, and governance forum participation to ensure visibility and alignment.</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Education Description</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="background-color:white">Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field from an accredited institution.</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Experience</b></H2> </div><div><ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Minimum of 15 years of experience in IT, with at least 10 years in an enterprise architecture role.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Proven experience in leading teams and managing architectural practices.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Extensive expertise in enterprise architecture best practices, guiding principles, governance, and standards.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture tools, specifically Ardoq (or equivalent) for reference architectures and modeling, plus familiarity with ServiceNow for data integration and quality.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Demonstrated experience with Azure DevOps (or equivalent) for work tracking, user-story-level commitment management, sprint planning, reporting, capacity/allocation flagging, and tool optimization/migration.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Experience leading architecture governance processes including ARB, TIR, deviation reviews, and solution walkthroughs.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Proven track record delivering EA roadmaps, playbooks, current/future state models, and governance process documents.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Experience managing financial and resource aspects of EA consultants (charge codes, budgeting, invoicing, managed services).</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt">Experience building team capability through competency frameworks, goal setting/tracking, and intern or junior staff development programs</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0;margin-bottom:0.0;vertical-align:middle;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.0pt;background-color:white">Certification in TOGAF standards and hands-on experience in applying these principles.</span></li> </ul></div></div></div><p style="margin-bottom:12.0px;text-align:start"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:12.0px;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><strong style="font-weight:bold">We want you to know</strong></span></span></span></span><br><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff">Being a part of the CenterPoint Energy team is more than a career alone. It's an opportunity to make a positive impact. You will be an integral part of enabling everyday life and the pursuit of possibilities for the customers we serve and the communities we share. The vital services we provide are at the core of making our world work, and by sharing your energy with us, we'll create a better tomorrow together. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br> </p> <p style="margin-bottom:12.0px;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>What we bring to you</strong></span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Competitive pay</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Paid training</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Benefits eligibility begins on your first day</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Transit subsidies</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Flexible work schedule, paid holidays and paid time off</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Access to discounts at fitness clubs and an on-site wellness center at our headquarters in Houston</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Professional growth and development programs including tuition reimbursement</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match dollar-for-dollar up to 6% and a company contribution of 3% regardless of your contribution</span></span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Job Type:</strong> Full Time <br><strong>Posting Start Date:</strong> 06/14/2026<br><strong>Posting End Date:</strong> 06/30/2026</span></span></p> <p><br><span style="font-size:16.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§ 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:8.0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">#LI-CNP</span></span></p>